Re: Feature idea: package an installer image as a grub entry before F8. Was [ Re: Very much packages with fc6 tag instead of fc7 in the FC7 tree ]

Subject: Re: Feature idea: package an installer image as a grub entry before F8. Was [ Re: Very much packages with fc6 tag instead of fc7 in the FC7 tree ]

Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2007 09:59:07 -0800

On 6/1/07, Jeremy Katz <katzj redhat com> wrote:

Better even than having the installer image, just package up a script
(or even simple pygtk app) that asks where you're wanting to upgrade
from and then downloads the kernel + initrd from there and does the
rest. This makes things far more general and more likely to work with,
eg, Unity respins, custom distros, etc.

whatever works. The goal here is to give people a better solution than
just a live yum upgrade, when they feel they can't use the iso based
images directly. People without dvd burners, remote/headless.
In fact a UI'd script would be very useful, so you can give people a
configuration dialog and ask them to turn on optional things like vnc
support if they want it.
-jef